Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Sorry lengthy, but I am ready to throw in the towel or die....

Hello my fellow ibsers. I have been with this board for 4 years and have had great suggestions, tips, friendships, etc. But after my IBS attack last night I am just not sure which doctor to go to next. It started out as my normal IBS attack, I knew it was coming, I get kind of a flushing sensation (like you might faint) and get chilled then my stomach will start cramping. I was in the process of drinking my peppermint tea and had taken a lorazepam just before that because I felt it coming on. I went and laid on the couch with the heating pad, finished my tea and laid there and laid there and laid there in the most God awful pain I had experienced in a long while. I generally have my cramping in my descending colon, but this was there, my sigmoid colon, above my naval, all over and so intense that I started getting nauseated and started spitting out nausea taste in my mouth....then the numbness and tingling set in (which I have had before) but NEVER this severe. My husband was home to experience and witness the intire attack. Both arms got cold and my fingers on both hands went numb and tingly, they were froze in this state and I could not move them. He tried opening and closing them for me to try to get some circulation in them, but I had no control over them. Then I started getting the tingling across my chest, up my neck and down my leg and toes. It felt like (when you sleep on a part of your body and wake up and it's asleep and it's kind of numb and tingling). I continued with the nausea and this tingling sensation to the point where I started shaking and basicall could not move, my legs and feet were tingling so bad I could not stand up, meanwhile, when the nausea, tingling sensation started it ws brought on by my colon cramping (which was horrific). I literally wanted to die and told him I was making an appointment to today to find someone who will give me a colostomy. I was not "nervous or panicky" before this hit, I was sitting outside sipping my tea enjoying our fire pit. I ate cooked potatoes and cooked carrots for dinner and a slife of "safe" french bread. I was once told by my favorite internist (who is no longer in practice) that when I have the passing episodes from an attack that it was a vaso-vagal episode and it was my colons way of trying to work properly and by doing so it was taking the blood is needed from my heart, hence me getting faint and passing out. I did not pass out last night, but I was basically in the "froze" position on our couch with my husband giving me sips of water with is hand. I had taken my Librax (for IBS, yeah right) and he had gone and gotten me a Levsin sub-lingual (also for colon spasm) to put under my tongue, at this point I was desperate because I KNEW as soon as I could poop (sorry) my symptoms would go away. Neither medication helped with the colon spasm (so what good are they)...I have often wanted to just quit all colon spams prescriptions, but am so afraid that if my symptoms are this severe with them, what would it be like without them? My like new GI doctor, that I was a drug seeker, bcause I was trying to explain to him the pain (I have never used anytype of narcotic when having an attack) He wanted to do a 4th colonoscopy, and I had just had one a year prior, which should the same thing, colon spasm in the ascending, tranverse and descending colon (which was worse). He said that everyone's colon has spasm and he would not consider them abnormal colonoscopies..... (jerk) The last one I had my internest had to blow so much air into my descending colon to get it open to he would finish the test, he said he was amazed because it completely shuts....I'm sorry, but I was so desperate, this sounds like a colon spasm/IBS attack/vascular type situation because of all the numbness and tingling, bt who in the heck is going to see me and take me serious. I cannot live this way any longer, the older I get the worse my symptoms get and that's watching every tiny tid-bit I put into my mouth and reading every label, etc....I have wanted a colostomy before, I am not sure if you can just ask for one, but if I do get one will the pain go away? Please I have serious about this and very desperate. I forgot to mention that this excapade lasted 3 1/2 hours before the water diarrhea kicked in for like 5 bms...

Cheryl

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IBS-D, extreme pain and cramping - GERD - lactose/dairy intolerant, OCD, Fibromyalgia
DX: w/ Multiple Sclerosis 3/10
I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me. Phil 4:13

Edited by LtDanFan (10/01/07 06:03 AM)

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